Image-Makers : The Social Context of a Hunter-Gatherer Ritual

Name: Image-Makers
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108498210
Price: 17800 KES
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9781108498210

by David Lewis-Williams

Book Details

Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1108498213

ISBN-13 9781108498210

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 23rd, 2019

Print length 226 Pages

Weight 49 grams

Dimensions 15.90 x 23.60 x 1.20 cms

Product Classification: Sociology Sociology: customs & traditions Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology

KSh 17,800.00

Currently unavailable 0 in stock

Delivery Location

County

Location

Delivery fee: Select location

Secure

Quality

Fast

Providing insight into an image-making process that became extinct at the end of the nineteenth-century, this book shows that, far from being trivial, hunter-gatherer rock art was embedded in religion. It explores the complex social relations of those who made rock art and why they made it.

Rock art images around the world are often difficult for us to decipher as modern viewers. Based on authentic records of the beliefs, rituals and daily life of the nineteenth-century San peoples, and of those who still inhabit the Kalahari Desert, this book adopts a new approach to hunter-gatherer rock art by placing the process of image-making within the social framework of production. Lewis-Williams shows how the San used this imagery not simply to record hunts and the animals that they saw, but rather to sustain the social network and status of those who made them. By drawing on such rich and complex records, the book reveals specific, repeated features of hunter-gatherer imagery and allows us insight into social relations as if through the eyes of the San themselves.

Get Image-Makers by David Lewis-Williams at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Cambridge University Press and it has 226 pages.